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  2. Socrates - Wikipedia

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    Socrates (/ ˈsɒkrətiːz /, [2] Greek: Σωκράτης; c. 470 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy [3] and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous ...

  3. Nero Wolfe - Wikipedia

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    "In the all-male Wolfe household that is an apparent bulwark of men's-club solidarity, Wolfe's misogyny is part pose, part protection, but above all, a shrewd tool of detective strategy", wrote critic Molly Haskell. "Archie does the romancing while Wolfe prods and offends, winnowing out the traitorous and brattish women and allowing the cream ...

  4. Corrective rape - Wikipedia

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    Corrective rape, also called curative rape[1] or homophobic rape, [2][3][4] is a hate crime in which somebody is raped because of their perceived sexual orientation. The common intended consequence of the rape, as claimed by the perpetrator, is to turn the person heterosexual. [5][6][7]

  5. Perry Farrell's wife Etty Lau Farrell is sharing an update on her husband following his onstage altercation with guitarist Dave Navarro during a Jane's Addiction concert. Etty Lau shared in an ...

  6. Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia

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    Aleister Crowley, on his name change. Crowley had his first significant mystical experience while on holiday in Stockholm in December 1896. Several biographers, including Lawrence Sutin, Richard Kaczynski, and Tobias Churton, believed that this was the result of Crowley's first same-sex sexual experience, which enabled him to recognize his bisexuality. At Cambridge, Crowley maintained a ...

  7. Archimedes - Wikipedia

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    Without the use of either trigonometry or a table of chords, Archimedes determines the Sun's apparent diameter by first describing the procedure and instrument used to make observations (a straight rod with pegs or grooves), [58] [59] applying correction factors to these measurements, and finally giving the result in the form of upper and lower ...

  8. Fermi paradox - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 September 2024. Discrepancy between lack of evidence of advanced alien life and apparently high likelihood it exists This article is about the absence of clear evidence of extraterrestrial life. For a type of estimation problem, see Fermi problem. Enrico Fermi (Los Alamos 1945) The Fermi paradox is ...

  9. List of prime numbers - Wikipedia

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    All prime numbers from 31 to 6,469,693,189 for free download. Lists of Primes at the Prime Pages. The Nth Prime Page Nth prime through n=10^12, pi(x) through x=3*10^13, Random prime in same range. Interface to a list of the first 98 million primes (primes less than 2,000,000,000) Weisstein, Eric W. "Prime Number Sequences". MathWorld.